Mazmur 119:4

119:4 You demand that your precepts

be carefully kept. ¹ 

Mazmur 119:10-11

119:10 With all my heart I seek you.

Do not allow me to stray from your commands!

119:11 In my heart I store up ²  your words, ³ 

so I might not sin against you.

Mazmur 119:27

119:27 Help me to understand what your precepts mean! ⁴ 

Then I can meditate ⁵  on your marvelous teachings. ⁶ 

Mazmur 119:33-34

ה (He)

119:33 Teach me, O Lord, the lifestyle prescribed by your statutes, ⁷ 

so that I might observe it continually. ⁸ 

119:34 Give me understanding so that I might observe your law,

and keep it with all my heart. ⁹ 

Mazmur 119:44

119:44 Then I will keep ¹⁰  your law continually

now and for all time. ¹¹ 

[119:4]  ¹ tn Heb “you, you commanded your precepts, to keep, very much.”

[119:11]  ² tn Or “hide.”

[119:11]  ³ tn Heb “your word.” Some medieval Hebrew mss as well as the LXX read the plural, “your words.”

[119:27]  ⁴ tn Heb “the way of your precepts make me understand.”

[119:27]  ⁵ tn The cohortative with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.

[119:27]  ⁶ tn Heb “your amazing things,” which refers here to the teachings of the law (see v. 18).

[119:33]  ⁷ tn Heb “the way of your statutes.”

[119:33]  ⁸ tn Heb “and I will keep it to the end.” The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative. The Hebrew term עֵקֶב (’eqev) is understood to mean “end” here. Another option is to take עֵקֶב (’eqev) as meaning “reward” here (see Ps 19:11) and to translate, “so that I might observe it and be rewarded.”

[119:34]  ⁹ tn The two prefixed verbal forms with vav (ו) conjunctive indicate purpose/result after the introductory imperative.

[119:44]  ¹⁰ tn The cohortative verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the negated jussive (see v. 43).

[119:44]  ¹¹ tn Or “forever and ever.”